Maike & Griffin

Schedule

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Time Event
4 - 4:45pm Guests arrive
5 - 6pm Ceremony
6 - 7:30pm Dinner and drinks
7:30 - 10pm Reception

Both the ceremony & reception will take place at Gruene Estate:

1030 River Road, New Braunfels, TX, 78130


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Registry

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FAQ

  • New Braunfels is approximately equidistant from Austin (~50 minutes) and San Antonio (~40 minutes), so you can fly to either city.

  • New Braunfels has lots of nice restaurants and points of interest as well as a variety of lodging options. Some of the major hotels are already sold out, but many still have vacancies. There are also local boutique hotels and hundreds of Airbnbs at a wide range of price points.

  • The Texas Hill Country is a great place to visit, especially in April when the weather is temperate and wildflowers are at their peak.

    • New Braunfels: experience the tremendous waterpark Schlitterbahn, enjoy Landa Park and the Comal springs, and explore downtown New Braunfels–don’t miss Krause’s beer hall or the Saturday morning farmer’s market. There’s also the nearby Gruene (“green”) historic district, boasting Texas’ oldest continually operating dance hall!

    • San Antonio: visit the River Walk, remember the Alamo, and check out great museums like the Doseum (kids), the Witte (natural history), and the McNay (art).

    • Austin: visit the Blanton Museum of Art and the Harry Ransom Center on the UT Austin campus (hook ’em), take a walk, swim, or kayak at Zilker Park and the Barton Springs Pool, and check out the beautiful Austin Central Library. Between Austin and New Braunfels, get a taste of authentic Texas BBQ at the Salt Lick in Driftwood, TX.

  • We are tentatively planning to view the eclipse on Monday in Blanco, TX, about 45 minutes north of New Braunfels.


Story

We met through the Dean’s Scholar’s Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where Griffin studied Physics and Plan II (class of 2019) and Maike studied Math (class of 2020).

We were both very involved with DS and became really good friends through leadership in the program.

By the time Griffin graduated, we were best friends. But we were never more than friends.

After college, Griffin started a PhD program in Applied Physics at Stanford University, and we kept in close contact. The following year, when Maike graduated from UT, she too began a PhD program at Stanford—hers in Biology. We were randomly assigned as next door neighbors in graduate housing and the rest is history!